Cultures of Ageing: Self, Citizen and the Body

1. Introduction 2. From Political Economy to the culture of personal identity 3. Retirement, identity and consumer society 4. Identity, self-care and staying young 5. The old person as citizen 6. Senior citizenship and contemporary social policy 7. Ageing and its embodiment 8. Bio-ageing and the reproduction of the social 9. Ageing, Alzheimer's and the uncivilised body 10 The inevitablity of the cultural turn in ageing studies